• several mass poisonings from toxic cough syrup have occurred in developing countries. In these cases, an ingredient in cough syrup, glycerine (glycerol), was...
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    Cold medicine (redirect from Cough syrup)
    Medicine portal Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, a Chinese herbal cough syrup Throat lozenge Toxic cough syrup Smith, SM; Schroeder, K; Fahey, T (24 November 2014)...
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  • Gambia cough syrup scandal refers to the deaths of 70 children in The Gambia from the consumption of four cough syrups manufactured in India. In October...
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    The Uzbekistan cough syrup scandal was a series of poisonings that resulted in the deaths of 18 children in Samarkand and two more children elsewhere...
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  • 2007 Toxic cough syrup in Panama: Pharmaceutical manufacturers used diethylene glycol, which they believed to be glycerine, to make cough syrup. 2008...
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  • 40% The 10 countries below imported 56.5% of that total: In 2022, toxic cough syrups made by two companies in India were linked to the deaths of 70 children...
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    Codeine (section Cough)
    a prescription as a time release tablet. Codeine is also marketed in cough syrups with zero to a half-dozen other active ingredients, and a linctus (e...
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    after ingesting the cough syrups. As a result authorities in Indonesia banned all syrup medicines. However, they advised that the syrups suspected of causing...
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    Tussilago (section Toxicity)
    Latin tussis, meaning cough, and ago, meaning to cast or to act on. It has had uses in traditional medicine, but the discovery of toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids...
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    health ministry has said children died as a result of ethylene glycol in cough syrup made by Marion Biotech, which is based at Noida, near New Delhi. Ethylene...
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